Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | The canny scribe had just persuaded the RAF to effectively give him the ultimate freebie , one which will remain the envy of flying hacks everywhere for many decades to come . |
| 2 | Because despite ignorance breeding a precious snobbery towards the seemingly ‘ uncool ’ , all it takes is one rock hero to mention Gram Parsons to inadvertently give the all-clear . |
| 3 | They had to perhaps give up their pots and pans , or they were supposed to . |
| 4 | At first the simple machines available could only detect down a few inches , and — amongst other operating difficulties — encounters with tufts of grass caused them to constantly give off false signals . |
| 5 | erm And I think erm we 've got to obviously give them as much respect as possible , because for them to reach the semi-final , the same as us erm they obviously erm have got some useful players . |
| 6 | He came in with the ideas , give the drivers and conductors everything they asked for whereby my training had always been to only give them what they were really entitled to , not give them anything extra but he gave them the earth and that erm did n't sort of go very well for the new Manager who came in , he had a lot of undoing to do there , that this fella had given away , in his six or seven weeks there . |
| 7 | Erm , also I , I wanted to try and cover the main points and it 's very difficult with a subject like that to , to only give you part of the , the story otherwise people would immediately say , well , yes , but you have n't thought about this or that . |
| 8 | ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ had just been released in England and David was doing well with it , or so I 'm told , but no-one had heard of him at all in America , so Tony DeFries gave us each a box of 25 albums to just give to whoever we thought was cool , which actually turned out to be a pretty good idea . |
| 9 | Julie Mills moved into her Edwardian town house in London expecting to just give it a lick of paint . |
| 10 | Keith used to just give them all twenty pence , but lately it 's been more . |
| 11 | Well I 'm bothered about her health and that and that 's what I must emphasize to her if she 's listening that er as far as we 're concerned we would want to just give her some sympathy advice and support in relation to this matter . |
| 12 | they 're gon na make you 're gon na spend nearly a fiver sending all that out to people and really we should be encouraging people to be members and not to just give us money from time to time . |
| 13 | I 'm not going to just give up my — ’ |
| 14 | Right , er on to any other business , David do you want to just give a ten minute summary about Parish special constables |
| 15 | Well , you need to just give it up and |
| 16 | I also expect the companies selling them to finally give up and start calling them computers — which , of course , is what they are . |
| 17 | The most important finding from this study was simply that drivers were able to comfortably give ratings of subjective risk . |
| 18 | The trick with infantry is to use them in large units , at least four ranks deep , preferably more , and to always give them a banner . |
| 19 | Erm so you need to develop a system that 's going to always give you a method and is always making the work easier for you and not getting you lost . |
| 20 | And obviously , they 'll have to still give the deposit . |
| 21 | 6,850 tests were carried out to deliberately give animals cancer . |
| 22 | It is realized that some teachers have had to temporarily give up teaching for various reasons and the longer one is out of teaching the harder it is to build up confidence to teach again . |
| 23 | The search aids include a search save process and a multiple database/system regeneration and repeat facility , an automated search technique developed from natural-language phrases via stemming and Boolean AND operation to automatically give a variety of searches based on the original phrase , aids to searching a number of individual databases , and a facility for automatic database selection . |
| 24 | Of course the difference is that Rooney 's view — that it is wrong to knowingly give the patient a drug that will harm her — probably has universal support . |
| 25 | ‘ I have accepted a challenge laid down by Mr Plumpton of Greycoats School that this school will field a tetrathlon team against his own team , good enough to really give them a run for their money , if not to beat them . |
| 26 | Every 4th or 5th shampoo , apply a penetrating treatment to really give your hair a boosts . |
| 27 | TO really give up smoking . |
| 28 | It would take about er it would take about three days like to really give it and then it would have to lie for a wee while to harden you know , the polish to harden . |
| 29 | I reckon Leeds need to win 14 of the last 18 games to even give us a prayer . |
| 30 | I used to even give up my lunch hours so that I could come home and take the dog out ! |